Sensing a backlash building against them, Hard-Fi have come out in defence of their music and their fans.
Speaking to the Daily Star after a surprise hometown show in the Staines branch of The Hobgoblin, singer Richard Archer laid into critics, implying that the band were resented because their proselytising didn’t conform to most people’s ideas of what a working class band should be.
“We had success because real people heard our music.
“Working-class musicians are supposed to be idiots who get drunk rather than people who have something to say,” continued the 30-year-old, whose hits include ‘Hard to Beat’, ‘Cash Machine’ and that one off the Carling advert.
“Sometimes it’s nice to have that to work against but what annoys me is when I think of our fans. You have to wonder what the people slating our record know about music when they’re essentially slagging off the fans of the band.”
Are hatreds of sub-, sub-, sub-Clash and plumbers mutually exclusive? I for one like plumbers, but hate sub-, sub-, sub-Clash. Are there any plumbers reading? Why settle for Hard-Fi? Why let Archer rub your nose in it? Life isn’t all kebabs and Stella, or at least it doesn’t have to be.
“You can take the piss out of my hair, my clothes – I don’t give a fuck. But take the piss out of the fans and that is out of order.”
The gig saw the band run through a selection of favourite covers, including The Jam’s ‘A Town Called Malice’. Their label is, drummer Steve Kemp assures us, “behind our music 100 per cent”.
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Hard-Fi fans are all idiots
CAN YOU HEAR ME, "RICHARD" ARCHER?
"I hate archers, The Archers, and Jeffrey Archer
You're all deceitful cowards.
I've just realised this only applies to archers and Jeffrey Archer, and not The Archers, who are, to be fair, a mixed bag."
their last single charted at 45
hahahahaha
2 points,
1: Didn't the backlash start ages ago?
2: Richard Archer is alot older than 30.
He's 35
FACT. But less of the Hard-Fi hate...their first album had some corking pop tunes on it.
That's
quite biting sarcasm!
blimey..
30 or 35, they started late didn't they?
what do they expect
their artwork is enough merit for most people to despise them.
How the fuck
did they sell out those 5 nights at Brixton Academy?
Must have been hard to get a scaffolder that week in London.
:D
...
Didn't we already heard this crap off Stereophonics six years ago?
Because the world really, really needed the Stereophonics mkII.
Backlash? No, really?!
I
have yet to meet one of Hard Fi's so called 'working class' fans. Everyone I've ever met who liked Hard Fi were anything but 'working class'
haha
Working-class musicians are supposed to be idiots who get drunk rather than people who have something to say,” continued the 30-year-old, whose hits include ‘Hard to Beat’, ‘Cash Machine’ and that one off the Carling advert.
I used to like this band a lot, i sort of outgrew them but would never slag them off.. my 15 year old me wouldnt like it.
I'm hoping this was written in irony...
" “Working-class musicians are supposed to be idiots who get drunk rather than people who have something to say,” continued the 30-year-old, whose hits include ‘Hard to Beat’, ‘Cash Machine’ and that one off the Carling advert. "
because it doesn't half come off like working-class tabloid journalism!
you are here
the point is miles away
Missing the point on anything concerning Hard-Fi
puts me on top automatically anyway.
from wikipedia
* "Suburban Knights" (2007) - #5 Peru, #7 UK, #15 Ireland, #79 Germany
* "Can't Get Along (Without You)" (2007) - #1 Peru, #45 UK
* "I Shall Overcome" (2008) - #4 Peru
does this mean they're for some reason really big in peru?
Maybe
that's what Nobby Solano's family are spending his wages on.
^ this did not get enough recognition
Why did Can't Get Along only get to number 45?
I've heard it on the radio loads of times and it sounds shit enough to at least be top 30.
They couldn't get enough copies in the shops in Britain
because of the sudden demand from Peru.
They always remind me of Life on Mars now
"How dare you take the good name of Sergio Leone in vain", or words to that effect...
every hard-fi fan I know
which unfortunately is a few, are V Festival fodder middle class five album a year (from sainsburys) well on their way to 2.4 kids and the family hatchback. It's average music for average people. I can't even bring myself to hate hard-fi as they are so pH neutral, so inert, that they barely qualify as serious artists.
And they sound more like the Style Council than The Clash.
What a fucking idiot!
But I'm enjoying Hard Fi's relative commercial failure on this album. A second single not making the top 40 - and although "I Shall Overcome" was at 12 on wednesday's midweeks, the face that the album is nowhere near the top 75 and the afforementioned single is not on the iTunes' top 100 suggests to me that even if this single charts well intially, it'll disappear quickly.
suuuuuuuuuch..
...an awful band!
Interesting logic there
Saying that his music is bad implies that his fans are idiots. Therefore, no one is allowed to say bad things about his band because it's an insult to the taste of the people who like them?
This would mean that you could never give a bad review to a record that was liked by as much as one person!
you don't need david attenborough to observe
that hard-fi's 'music' is derivative 80's cack and whoever likes it with more than a passing fancy is a complete imbecile? Fine, enjoy the single about getting trashed at the weeeeekeeeeeend or whatever but expect to get shafted with a scaffolding pipe the moment you calim they have changed the face of british music/revolutionised the indie scene/insert hyperbole of choice...